Ken
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Wed. 5/1/13 9:06am
tim from champaign:
The phrase "corn weenie" is now part of my lexicon. I've used it several times in in the past week. It's a very useful and spot on for describing some people. Thanks, Hen!

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:04am
Caryn:
Perhaps the gif name "gerbil chew" means that the rabbit is chewing on a gerbil and is just chasing it down with some lettuce? Of course, considering the rabbit's digestive system, this will end sadly for the rabbit, but hey, at least it got rid of its gerbil nemesis first.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:14am
Caryn:
f◈f◈ (: But then you'd have to wait for years and years. And Russians celebrate namedays more than birthdays. So you could get a Khlam performance way earlier with some good daughter-to-dad begging.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:17am
Jeezy:
I can't believe I only noticed for the first time this morning as I jogged that Mick Jagger wakes up from his dreams to a car slathered with parking tickets in "Hey, Get Offa My Cloud."

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:18am
YETI BOB:
golem was created by the rabbi of prague, at first he was helpful and good but he got out of control and had to be destroyed ... a warning about technology, I think

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:18am
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
still b/p: Khlampus !!!
- War on Xmas! All Year 'Round!
...Ken - Sabrina's just a little too much like a NY/NJ version of one or two people who come into the ThriftStore I work @; this is my 'Sunday' okay??

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:20am
Ken:
Yes Cecile, I saw it. All I can say is we are really lucky that we never had a listener meetup to see it at the theaters. It was really unwatchable. Not bad-good at ALL. Just middling and boring as shit. And no tATu to speak of in it.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:21am
Caryn:
f◈f◈ (: the actual headline was "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster!" But considering it was the headfart of the same Murdoch stooge who spread those "wonderful" stories about Hillsborough fans urinating on and having sex with the corpses during the disaster, it's as disconnected from reality as Lindsey Lohan on an average Saturday night.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:21am
Cecile:
That sucks. You want it to be at least "Showgirls" bad.

Wed. 5/1/13 10:22am
Sam:
Good morning! I would bet that the golem story and the frankenstein story have a common origin in earlier pagan mythology!

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:22am
Ralphine:
I must be the only person that likes Showgirls.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:22am
YETI BOB:
if you visit prague, they point out the church (the "Old New Synagogue", where apparently the remains (dust) of the Golem are still kept. And you can buy a cute little pewter souvenier Golem. More here : www.pantheon.org...

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:24am
Ken:
Ive never seen Showgirls, but yeah - I was hoping for Road House, Red Dawn, Point Break, Footloose (original) - that kind of bad.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:24am
Cecile:
Ralphine, hardly.
It's a huge cult, particularly in the gay community. There is one guy who does a MST-3K running commentary that the filmmakers actually included in a version of the DVD.

On RuPaul's Drag Race I heard someone go, "Oh, she gonna push you down the stairs like Nomi Malone!"

When I have a couple of drinks I can get into it.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:25am
dc pat:
I just had miso soup so I don't even care about general tso right now.....hmmm, general tso...

Wed. 5/1/13 10:26am
f◈f◈ (:
Ken,

You really didn't liked it. But do you think the tATu movie has any salvaging value? There must be at least one scene to salvage-gif from it.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:26am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
damn, now I'm lost in drooly flashbacks to last night's blackbean-garlic broccoli with black fungus bun. My charming spouse has a problem with the phrase "black fungus bun" for some reason.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:27am
Caryn:
@Sam: to be fair, the Frankenstein story was greatly influenced by a) Mary Shelley's parents often taking her to see the public autopsies that were a popular pastime of the day, and b) on Shelley's recurring nightmares about her dead child rising from the grave to come after her.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:30am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
DCP: whenever I have to head out into the safari wasteland of MD suburbs (wheaton & points north), I hit the asian grocery spots. Def. need something on that scale in town.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:33am
Ken:
Ah even Mischa Barton was a disappointment. She worked in a meat factory 0 imagine the potential! But there was like one shot inside the meat plant, which lasted half a second.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:33am
dc pat:
A re-occurring issue with city life. I'm currently trying to find tofu skins but need to find a decent Japanese grocery...

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:55am
Jennique:
Ken your gifs are one of the main draws to stopping by the playlist, so it pains me to see repeats, especially within the same playlist! You are a better giffer than that! You're just being sloppy.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:57am
Ralphine:
Is that picture for the Soul Flower Mononoke Summit from "E.T. Goes to Russia"?

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:57am
dc pat:
in all seriousness, Khlam was EXACTLY what I was looking for today! You are a genius Ken. Dank.

Wed. 5/1/13 10:57am
Sam:
Yeah, these dudes know what to do with a saxophone!

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:57am
Ken:
Jennique, the talking egg denotes a microphone break! But I see your point and shall never repeat anything ever again except for a word and a phrase now and then and some music, and a few beloved habits and my favorite roads, just stuff like that, but NEVER a GIF!

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:58am
Caryn:
@Jennique: Ken also has gifs he uses as a stand-by until he can find the final gif to replace it with. So sometimes repeat gifs go away after a while, replaced by something chosen with more time.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:58am
doca:
you know you're listening to something unique when the only references you find about it on google are all related to wfmu playlists.

Wed. 5/1/13 10:58am
Sam:
Imagine a world where this was the only gif...

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:59am
tim from champaign:
Khlam is not so bad. I dig it OK. I think I'd only listen to it on Ken's show though.

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Wed. 5/1/13 10:59am
Caryn:
@Ralphine: what, you haven't seen the "super-duper special edition" of ET yet? Not only are the guns now walkie-talkies, the entire film takes place in the USSR so that kids don't grow up to think US authorities would hunt down innocent aliens.

Wed. 5/1/13 11:12am
still b/p:
Speaking of repeats -- my own comment post from another day long ago:
The drummer is Elisha Cook Jr., and his frame of mind has been correctly read here. This, from an IMDb contributed bio, is about that scene :
"...he enacts a drum-solo piece that is of such crescendo, and played with such innuendo, as to suggest - glaringly - nothing except his own fantasized sexual journey from cymbal foreplay through bass-drum climax."

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Wed. 5/1/13 11:19am
Caryn:
I think Chaplin in "The Gold Rush" and Donna Reed in "It's a Wonderful Life" are such givens, I'll just encourage everyone to check out "Phantom Lady". Fabulous movie with an awesome heroine.

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Wed. 5/1/13 11:19am
Ken:
I hear this song the other day and realized, THIS is where the Beegees stole their sound from.

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Wed. 5/1/13 11:19am
Cecile:
didja do another chance from his last album? that song should have been this biggest thing since PSY in a just world.

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Wed. 5/1/13 11:22am
Jennique:
Watched WKRP last night by chance. Travis had to fill in as Venus was out at the last minute, so he put on a falsetto voice and said he was "Apollo Flytrap" and tried to sound funky/soulful but played country music. The Switch song woulda fit nicely for Apollo Flytrap's show.

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Wed. 5/1/13 11:25am
AnAnonymousParty:
Ah, I remember time was you'd be listening to a song and in the middle there'd be a break with a spoken section. Now songs are mostly talking and some times there's a break in the middle where someone actually sings a couple of lines. Now get off my lawn!

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Wed. 5/1/13 11:33am
Carmichael:
Cheri, the package was intercepted by Homeland Security, who will tell you how much they enjoyed it upon receipt of your Freedom of Information Act request. In 3 to 5 years.

Wed. 5/1/13 11:42am
Rich in Washington:
I've been wanting the full-length version of this song (I only have the 4 min 7" version) but I suspect it's just the song played twice and cleverly made seamless.

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Wed. 5/1/13 11:53am
Cecile:
I like Tom when he's got a big production. He has a huge voice and he has to have backing that stands up to him. I don't mind him doing soul with a big band - I think that's the way to go.

Oh, Ethan johns, that's right. The song of the guy who wrecked the Who.

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Wed. 5/1/13 11:53am
Caryn:
We know what that crab's been doing to get such an overdeveloped right claw! Hah!

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Wed. 5/1/13 11:53am
Cecile:
Tom Jones started as an RnB singer. I think putting him with Mark Ronson and the DapTones would be a win.